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PT Sambas Minerals Mining (Sambas Group)
Kendari Branch Manager

Ensuring that production plans, schedules and overall KPIs are met within the appropriate quality standards.

Ensuring that we maintain efficient operations and high productivity standards.

Extensive experience in an open pit metal mining environment.

Directing priority for mobile equipment maintenance based on operational demands, and close liaison with mobile equipment staff.

Liaising closely with the technical, planning, survey and geological teams to run the mine.

Maintaining compliance with safety and environmental regulations in his/her area, and issues instructions and training to workers to ensure adherence to applicable safety and operational rules and regulations.

Maintaining a visible presence in the workplace through regular safety interactions with the work teams and regular workplace inspections.

Providing support for the Mining Manager.

ANTON TARIGAN

PT Sambas Minerals Mining (Sambas Group)
President Director

Anton Tarigan is a President Director with PT Sambas Minerals Mining of Sambas Group. PT Sambas Minerals Mining, a company that invests in the mining sector, owes concessions, has export licenses till 2023 and builds a nickel refining plant with environmentally friendly Hydrometallurgy Nickel Ore system in the South Palangga District, South Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi Province. PT Sambas in accordance with the mining business license (IUP) has an area of 1,008 hectares.

Expertise and Experience:

Nickel smelting

Coal mining operations

Core Competencies:

Committed to operating nickel refining plants in South Konawe and Southeast Sulawesi.

Lead general meetings to ensure plans implementation.

Act as a representative of the organization and contributes to building relationships between stakeholders including companies, and community groups in order to facilitate an effective regulatory environment for mining operations.

Coordinate and control activities in the field of financial administration and staff.

Coordinate and control procurement activities and equipment.

Plan and develop sources of income and control expenditures.

Interpret various Acts and Regulations relevant to the extractive mining industry and making complex decisions.

Responsible for the delivery of quality regulatory and compliance services to provide assurance to the government, industry and community stakeholders that mining activities and regulatory requirements are being adhered to and are continually monitored.

COAL

Coal remains the cheapest and most reliable source of energy. Its abundance and low cost to operate makes it a sustainable energy source.

YEAR

2035

Indonesia will become the largest
exporter of thermal coal globally.

Growing demand in 10 ASEAN countries. 49% of their power will come from coal by 2035.TWICE the global average.

WHAT IS NICKEL

Nickel is silvery white and takes on a high polish. It is hard, malleable, ductile, somewhat ferromagnetic, and a fair conductor of heat and electricity.

EXPLORATION

ASMC has an experienced team of explorers comprising of three nationalities, who under expert guidance are working on projects throughout ASEAN. Current exploration efforts are focussed on West Java, Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia; looking at high quality coal, gold and base metals prospects; Mindanao, Mindoro and Luzon in Philippines; Malaysia.

We are also evaluating other projects throughout South East Asia on an ad hoc basis.

ASEAN Countries

Technical Details

Our exploration focus is on precious metals foremost but we will evaluate other commodities based on project quality measured against current and long-term market status. ASMC is open to negotiate various scenarios from take-over, Joint Venture to exploring and developing for fee or earn-in.

MAMUJU

The license is in the final stages of resource and reserve evaluation and production planning, an exploration program aimed to expand the already 1,087 ha manganese license is ongoing. Exploration for high CV coal as well as Gold is ongoing on several other licences.

Mamuju Regency, Indonesia

Technical Details

Two licence blocks of 1097 ha and 2291 ha respectively are under exploration for multiple commodities.
We are also supporting local communities with small gold licences doing resource evaluation and designing best practice glean-gold operations.

KENDARI

Kendari is a PT Sambas ASMC Global nickel laterite project awarded export rights on the 31st of October 2017. The project has a license to export 2.97-million MT of nickel-laterite ore per year. The mine license of 1,008 ha has an ongoing mining and mine expansion program throughout the license. The Kendari project also includes the constructing of a Ferro-nickel smelter of which the first line of 10 is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2019.

Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesian Province

Technical Details

Mine Owner:

PT. Sambas Minerals Mining

IUP OP Number:

745 Tahun 2010

IUP OP Validity:

2020 (Renewable)

IUP OP Area:

1008 hectares

Location:

Kendari

Mine Coordinates:

4°23’41.41”S 122°21’45.09”E

Concentration Ni:

1.3% < Ni < 1.7%

Hauling Distance:

8 km

Inventory Inferred Resources:

14.275.000 MT

Inventory Indicated Resources:

13.500.000 MT

Inventory Measured Resources:

117.394.000 MT

Distance between jetty and
stockpile area:

700 metres

Jetty to anchorage:

3.32 km

Barge Capacity:

4 x 300ft barge

Jetty Name:

PT. Sambas

Loading Rate:

5 Ships per month

Loading Capacity:

500 – 600 MT/hours

BERAU JAYA PERKASA

The Tarakan Basin is the main coal-bearing basin in East Kalimantan, with the Berau Sub-basin, as its main coal-bearing basin.

BERAU JAYA PERKASA is a coal mining licence in which ASMC is a joint venture partner. The mine license of 1,368 ha, is located on the western flank of the Berau Sub Basin. In addition to the coal seam being more than 10m thick, it is a low-ash coal containing extremely low levels of sulphur, ensuring a clean product with minimal environmental impacts. The licence is in the final stages of resource and reserve estimation and mine infrastructure planning, with production estimated to begin H2, 2018.

Why Asia

The 10 booming economies of Southeast Asia are rapidly emerging as energy-consuming giants. However as indigenous fuel production dwindles and competition for resources mounts, they all face a number of energy uncertainties.

Consensus is that the focus of world energy demand has shifted away from the U.S. and Europe to Asia, driven by the soaring economies of the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with China and India.

Coal giant, Indonesia – not the biggest producer but it is the largest exporter of thermal coal globally – to almost double output by 2035.

East Kalimantan produces two thirds of Indonesia coal output

Indonesia produces 44% of its electricity from coal

Indonesia is developing significant plans to expand its generation capacity and much of this will be based on its extensive domestic coal resources.

The five largest coal importers are all Asian – Japan, China, S Korea, India & Taiwan.

The IEA predicts that Australia will surpass Indonesia as the world’s largest thermal coal exporter again by 2020, regaining a position it gave up in 2006.

Malaysia buys 68%of its coal for electricity generation from Indonesia and 17% from Australia

With some 70 gigawatts of new coal-fired power stations to be opened across Asia in the next five years, requiring another 150 million to 180 million tonnes of coal a year the region is set for a supply crunch!

South-east Asian coal demand is set to triple in the next 25 years.

Coal will replace natural gas as the dominant fuel for producing electricity in Southeast Asia as the region almost doubles its energy consumption in the next two decades, according to the IEA.

The 10 members of ASEAN, with energy demand growing at more than twice the global average, will get 49% of their power from coal by 2035, up from 31% in 2011.

There’s a big push to boost coal in the energy sector instead of natural gas across Southeast Asia.

lack of gas resources

coal-fired power offers the cheapest and most reliable alternative to all other energy sources

cost to run coal is still relatively lower than other resources

Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 made countries rethink the nuclear alternative, some have dropped their nuclear power concepts

South-east Asia’s embrace of coal comes with a geopolitical twist – As Western financial institutions such as the World Bank and European and American development banks walk away from funding coal, the IEA predicts that Chinese-led institutions such as the recently formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will step into the breach to help south-east Asia meet the higher cost of low-emission coal technology.

On their own, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam account for three-quarters of new coal-fired power plants expected to be built around the world in the next five years. In India alone, about 300 million people live without access to electricity.

FUTURE OF NICKEL

The future for electric vehicles is real and trending. Policies are being developed to push New Energy Vehicles (NEV) adoption to over 10% share in new vehicles sales by 2020.

Usage of nickel

Nickel plays a crucial role in some of our key technologies.

FERRY INDRA

Ferry is a Director of Business Operations with Asia Strategic Mining Corporation Pte Ltd and PT SAMBAS ASMC GLOBAL

Expertise and Experience:

Ferry is one of ASMC’s most critical “on the ground” managers. He graduated from Gadjah Mada University with a Master of Business Administration, and has always had a talent for developing streamlined, flexible organizational systems. His ability to rectify and refine organizational processes has served several companies well, and he excelled in his last appointment as Regional Manager at PT. Anugrah Karunia Alam before joining Asia Strategic Mining Corporation Pte Ltd in Indonesia.

Previously, he also distinguished himself with stints at HSBC Indonesia, and at Standard Chartered Bank in Jakarta.

Ferry’s tenacity is an example to his subordinates and peers being one of ASMC’s most tireless front-line workers. He is often the first to be consulted for solutions on daily operational needs.

JEFFREY SIM

Jeffrey is a Business Development Manager with Asia Strategic Mining Corporation Pte Ltd

Expertise and Experience:

Jeffrey is a highly driven professional with substantial experience in all aspect of mining investment, sales/marketing/business development for coal, mineral and precious metal. Graduated in building construction, with keen interests, he moved into the mining industry and worked with a major Indonesian coal miner, top commodity trading houses developing sales to a wide range of customers such as cement, power generation, textile, stockpile port terminal and other industrial factories in China, India and within South East Asia. His entrepreneurial and commercially astute skills are a substantial asset to serving our international customers with different cultural background.

DR. WILLEM JACOBUS SMUTS

PR.SCI.NAT.

Dr Willem has been a Mining Director of Asia Strategic Mining Corporation since May 2016.

Expertise and Experience:

Dr Willem Smuts is a geologist with a master’s degree in sedimentology from the University of Port Elizabeth and a PhD from Pretoria University. He is a registered professional earth scientist and has authored and co-authored over 79 scientific and technical papers. Also, he is recognised as a Qualified Person pursuant to NI 43-101 and a Competent Person under the JORC and SAMREC codes respectively.

Willem has 30 years of technical and management experience in the fields of research, exploration, mining and consulting. During that period he was a director of several private companies and CEO and President of a Canadian listed junior miner. He has edited several leading mining magazines, independently consults on coal, diamond, gold and base metals exploration and has been delivering hands-on mining courses and workshops for mining and financial companies and individuals around the globe.